New Left

1960s–70s Western political movement

For other uses, see New Left (disambiguation).

The New Left was a broad political movement that emerged from the counterculture of the 1960s and continued through the 1970s. It consisted of activists in the Western world who, in reaction to the era's liberal establishment, campaigned for freer lifestyles on a broad range of social issues such as feminism, gay rights, drug policy reforms, and gender relations.[1] The New Left differs from the traditional left in that it tended to acknowledge the struggle for various forms of social justice, whereas previous movements prioritized explicitly economic goals. However, many have used the term "New Left" to describe an evolution, continuation, and revitalization of traditional leftist goals.[2][3][4]

Some who self-identified as "New Left"[5] rejected involvement with the labor movement and Marxism's historical theory of class struggle;[6] however, others gravitated to their own takes on established forms of Marxism, such as the New Communist movement (which drew from Maoism) in the United States or the K-Gruppen[a] in the German-speaking world. In the United States, the movement was associated with the anti-war college-campus protest movements, including the Free Speech Movement.

The CIA, through the Congress for Cultural Freedom, funded various intellectuals, cultural organizations and magazines affiliated with the New Left that championed anti-communist ideas and Western values.[7][8][9][10] The movement fell into decline following the end of the Vietnam War, in part as the result of a covert U.S. government campaign to mobilize the CIA's CHAOS and FBI's COINTELPRO to exacerbate existing fissions within the movement's most prominent groups, such as Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Panther Party.[11][12] This campaign culminated in the 1969 Assassination of BPP Chairman Fred Hampton by Chicago Police, in a predawn raid planned in coordination with the FBI and the Cook County State's Attorney.[13][14][15]

## Background

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Herbert Marcuse, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, is celebrated as the "Father of the New Left".[16]

The origins of the New Left have been traced to several factors. Prominently, the confused response of the Communist Party of the USA and the Communist Party of Great Britain to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 led some Marxist intellectuals to develop a more democratic approach to politics, opposed to what they saw as the centralised and authoritarian politics of the pre-World War II leftist parties. The Marxists who became disillusioned with the authoritarian nature of Communist Parties eventually formed the "new left".

Initially, the movement was composed of dissenting Communist Party intellectuals and campus groups in the United Kingdom; later it incorporated student radicals in the United States and in the Western Bloc.[17] The term nouvelle gauche was already current in France in the 1950s. It was associated with France Observateur, and its editor Claude Bourdet, who attempted to form a third position, between the dominant Stalinist and social democratic tendencies of the left, and the two Cold War blocs. It was from this French "new left" that the "First New Left" of Britain borrowed the term.[18]

The German critical theorist Herbert Marcuse is referred to as the "Father of the New Left".[16] He rejected the orthodox Marxist view of the revolutionary proletariat; instead, he labeled the 1960s Black Power and student movements as the new challengers of capitalism. In a speech at UC Berkeley in 1971, Marcuse said: "I still consider the radical student movement and the Black and Brown militants as the only real opposition we have in this country."[19] According to Leszek Kołakowski, noted critic of Marxist thought, Marcuse argued that since "all questions of material existence have been solved, moral commands and prohibitions are no longer relevant". He regarded the realization of man's erotic nature, or Eros, as the true liberation of humanity, which inspired the utopias of Jerry Rubin and others.[20] However, Marcuse also believed the concept of Logos, which involves one's reason, would absorb Eros over time.[21] Prominent New Left thinker Ernst Bloch believed that socialism would prove the means for all human beings to become immortal and eventually create God.[22]

The writings of sociologist C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), who popularized the term 'New Left' in a 1960 open letter,[23] also inspired the movement. According to biographer Daniel Geary, Mills' works such as White Collar (1951), The Power Elite (1956), and The Sociological Imagination (1959) had a "particularly significant impact on New Left social movements of the 1960s".[24]

## Origins in the United Kingdom

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As a result of Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech denouncing Joseph Stalin, many abandoned the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and began to rethink orthodox Marxism. Some joined various Trotskyist groupings or the Labour Party.[25]

The Marxist historians E. P. Thompson and John Saville of the Communist Party Historians Group published a dissenting journal within the CPGB called Reasoner. Refusing to discontinue the publication at the behest of the CPGB, the two were suspended from party membership and relaunched the journal in the summer of 1957 as The New Reasoner.

Thompson was especially important in bringing the concept of a "New Left" to the United Kingdom in the summer of 1959 with a New Reasoner lead essay, in which he described

> a generation which never looked upon the Soviet Union as a weak but heroic Workers' State; but rather as the nation of the Great Purges and Stalingrad, of Stalin's Byzantine Birthday and of Khrushchev's Secret Speech; as the vast military and industrial power which repressed the Hungarian rising and threw the first sputniks into space....

> A generation nourished on 1984 and Animal Farm, which enters politics at the extreme point of disillusion where the middle-aged begin to get out. The young people... are enthusiastic enough. But their enthusiasm is not for the Party, or the Movement, or the established Political Leaders. They do not mean to give their enthusiasm cheaply away to any routine machine. They expect the politicians to do their best to trick or betray them. ... They prefer the amateur organisation and amateurish platforms of the Nuclear Disarmament Campaign to the method and manner of the left wing professional. ... They judge with the critical eyes of the first generation of the Nuclear Age.[26]

Later that year, Saville published a piece in the same journal which identified the emergence of the British New Left as a response to the increasing political irrelevance of socialists inside and outside the Labour Party during the 1950s, which he saw as being the result of a failure by the established left to come to grips with the political changes that had come to pass internationally after World War II, specifically, the economic expansion and the socio-economic legacy of the Attlee ministry:

> The most important single reason for the miserable performance of the Left in this past decade is the simple fact of its intellectual collapse in the face of full employment and the welfare state at home, and of a new world situation abroad. The Left in domestic matters has produced nothing of substance to offset the most important book of the decade – Crosland's "The Future of Socialism" – a brilliant restatement of Fabian ideas in contemporary terms. We have made no sustained critique of the economics of capitalism in the 1950s, and our vision of a socialist society has changed hardly at all since the days of Keir Hardie. Certainly a minority has begun to recognise our deficiencies in the most recent years, and there is no doubt that the seeds which have already been sown will bring an increasing harvest as we move along the sixties. But we still have a long way to go, and there are far too many timeless militants for whom the mixture is the same as before.[27]

In 1960, The New Reasoner merged with the Universities and Left Review to form New Left Review. a publication aimed at making the ideas of culturally oriented theorists available to an undergraduate reading audience. These early New Left journals attempted to forge a Marxist revisionist position of "socialist humanism", departing from orthodox Marxist theory. In a 2010 retrospective, Stuart Hall wrote, "I was troubled by the failure of orthodox Marxism to deal adequately with either 'Third World' issues of race and ethnicity, and questions of racism, or with literature and culture, which preoccupied me intellectually as an undergraduate."[18]

During the late 1950s–early '60s period, many New Leftists were involved in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), which formed in 1957. According to Robin Blackburn, "The decline of CND by late 1961, however, deprived the New Left of much of its momentum as a movement, and uncertainties and divisions within the Board of the journal led to the transfer of the Review to a younger and less experienced group in 1962."[28]

Under the long-standing editorial leadership of Perry Anderson, New Left Review popularised the Frankfurt School, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, and other forms of Marxism.[28] Other periodicals like Socialist Register, started in 1964, and Radical Philosophy, started in 1972, have been associated with the New Left, and published a range of important writings in this field.

As the campus orientation of the American New Left became clear in the mid to late 1960s, the student sections of the British New Left began taking action. The London School of Economics became a key site of British student militancy.[29] The influence of protests against the Vietnam War and of the May 1968 events in France were also felt strongly throughout the British New Left—some responded by joining the International Socialists, which later became Socialist Workers Party, while others got involved with groups such as the International Marxist Group.[30][31] The politics of the British New Left can be contrasted with Solidarity, which focused on industrial issues from a libertarian perspective.

Another significant figure in the British New Left was Stuart Hall, a black cultural theorist in Britain. He was the founding editor of New Left Review in 1960. In an obituary following his death in February 2014, Robin Blackburn wrote in New Left Review: "His exemplary investigations came close to inventing a new field of study, 'cultural studies'; in his vision, the new discipline was profoundly political in inspiration and radically interdisciplinary in character."[32]

Numerous Black British scholars attributed their interest in cultural studies to Hall, including Paul Gilroy, Angela McRobbie, Isaac Julien, and John Akomfrah. In the words of Indian literary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Academics worldwide could not think 'Black Britain' before Stuart Hall. And in Britain the impact of Cultural Studies went beyond the confines of the academy."[33]

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In the United States, "New Left" was the name loosely associated with radical, Marxist political movements that arose during the 1960s, primarily among college students. At the core of these movements was the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).[34] Noting the perversion of "the older Left" by "Stalinism", in their 1962 Port Huron Statement the SDS eschewed "formulas" and "closed theories". Instead they called for a "new left ... committed to deliberativeness, honesty [and] reflection".[35] The New Left that developed in the following years was "a loosely organized, mostly white student movement that advocated for democracy, civil rights, and various types of university reforms, and protested against the Vietnam war".[36]

The term "New Left" was popularised in the United States in an open letter, entitled Letter to the New Left, written in 1960 by sociologist C. Wright Mills.[23] He argued for a revamped leftist ideology, moving away from the ("Old Left") focus on issues solely pertinent to labor (whose entrenched union leadership in the U.S. supported the Cold War and pragmatic establishment politics) into a broader set of issues such as opposing alienation, anomie, and authoritarianism. Mills argued for a shift from traditional leftism toward the values of the counterculture, and he emphasized the movement's international perspective.[37] According to David Burner, Mills claimed that the proletariat (collectively, the working class as defined by Marxism) were no longer the revolutionary force; the new agents of revolutionary change were young intellectuals around the world.[38]

A student protest called the Free Speech Movement took place during the 1964–1965 academic year on the campus of UC Berkeley under the informal leadership of students Mario Savio, Jack Weinberg, Brian Turner, Bettina Aptheker, Steve Weissman, Art Goldberg, Jackie Goldberg, and others. In protests unprecedented in scope at the time, students insisted that the university administration lift the ban on campus political activities and acknowledge the students' right to free speech and academic freedom. On 2 December 1964 on the steps of Sproul Hall, Mario Savio delivered a speech with these famous passages:

> [T]he faculty are a bunch of employees, and we're the raw material! But we're a bunch of raw material[s] that don't mean to have any process upon us, don't mean to be made into any product, don't mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We're human beings! ... There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.[39][40]

The New Left opposed what it saw as the prevailing authority structures in society, which it termed "The Establishment", and those who rejected this authority became known as the "anti-Establishment". The New Left focused on social activists and their approach to organization, convinced that they could be the source for a better kind of social revolution.

The New Left in the United States also included anarchist, countercultural, and hippie-related radical groups such as the Yippies (who were led by Abbie Hoffman), the Diggers,[41] Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, and the White Panther Party. By late 1966, the Diggers opened free stores which simply gave away their stock, provided free food, distributed free drugs, gave away money, organized free music concerts, and performed works of political art.[42] The Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers led by Gerrard Winstanley[43] and sought to create a mini-society free of money and capitalism.[44] On the other hand, the Yippies (the name allegedly coming from Youth International Party) employed theatrical gestures, such as advancing a pig ("Pigasus the Immortal") as a candidate for president in 1968, to mock the social status quo.[45] They have been described as a highly theatrical, anti-authoritarian, and anarchist[46] youth movement of "symbolic politics".[47] According to ABC News, "The group was known for street theater pranks and was once referred to as the 'Groucho Marxists'."[48] Many of the "old school" political left either ignored or denounced them.

Many New Left thinkers in the United States were influenced by the Vietnam War and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Some in the U.S. New Left argued that since the Soviet Union could no longer be considered the world center for proletarian revolution, new revolutionary Communist thinkers had to be substituted in its place, such as Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro.[49] Todd Gitlin in The Whole World Is Watching in describing the movement's influences stated, "The New Left, again, refused the self-discipline of explicit programmatic statement until too late—until, that is, the Marxist–Leninist sects filled the vacuum with dogmas, with clarity on the cheap."[50]

Isserman (2001) reports that the New Left "came to use the word 'liberal' as a political epithet".[51] Historian Richard Ellis (1998) says that the SDS's search for their own identity "increasingly meant rejecting, even demonizing, liberalism".[52] As Wolfe (2010) notes, "no one hated liberals more than leftists".[53]

Other elements of the U.S. New Left were anarchist and looked to libertarian socialist traditions of American radicalism, the Industrial Workers of the World and union militancy. This group coalesced around the historical journal Radical America. American Autonomist Marxism derived from this stream, for instance, in the thought of Harry Cleaver. Murray Bookchin was also part of the anarchist strain in the New Left, as were the Yippies.[54]

The U.S. New Left drew inspiration first from the civil disobedience of the civil rights movement, particularly the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and then from black radicalism, particularly the Black Power movement and the more explicitly Maoist and militant Black Panther Party. The Panthers in turn influenced other similar militant groups, like the Young Lords, the Brown Berets and the American Indian Movement. Students immersed themselves into poor communities building up support with the locals.[55] The New Left sought to be a broad-based, grass-roots movement.[56]

The Vietnam War conducted by liberal President Lyndon B. Johnson was a special target across the worldwide New Left. Johnson and his top officials became unwelcome on American campuses. The anti-war movement escalated the rhetorical heat, as violence broke out on both sides. The climax came at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

The New Left also helped set in motion the rebirth of feminism.[57] With sexism being rampant in certain sections of the New Left,[58][59] women reacted to the lack of progressive gender politics with their own social intellectual movement.[60] In addition, the New Left was an incubator for the modern environmentalist movement, which clashed with the Old Left's disregard for environmental matters in favor of preserving jobs of union workers. Environmentalism also gave rise to various other social justice movements such as the environmental justice movement, which aims to prevent the toxification of the environment of minority and disadvantaged communities.[2]

By 1968, however, the New Left coalition began to split. The anti-war Democratic presidential nomination campaign of Kennedy and McCarthy brought the central issue of the New Left into the mainstream liberal establishment. The 1972 nomination of George McGovern further highlighted the new influence of Liberal protest movements within the Democratic establishment. Increasingly, feminist and gay rights groups became important parts of the Democratic coalition, thus satisfying many of the same constituencies that were previously unserved by the mainstream parties.[1] This institutionalization took away all but the most radical members of the New Left. The remaining radical core of the SDS, dissatisfied with the pace of change, incorporated violent tendencies towards social transformation. After 1969, the Weathermen, a surviving faction of SDS, attempted to launch a guerrilla war in an incident known as the "Days of Rage". Finally, in 1970 three members of the Weathermen blew themselves up in a Greenwich Village brownstone trying to make a bomb out of a stick of dynamite and an alarm clock.[61] Port Huron Statement participant Jack Newfield wrote in 1971 that "in its Weathermen, Panther and Yippee incarnations, [the New Left] seems anti-democratic, terroristic, dogmatic, stoned on rhetoric and badly disconnected from everyday reality".[62] In contrast, the more moderate groups associated with the New Left increasingly became central players in the Democratic Party and thus in mainstream American politics.

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Abbie Hoffman, leader of the countercultural protest group the Yippies

The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies inherited the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation and mimicked some of the current values of the British Mod scene. Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and some used drugs such as cannabis, LSD, and psilocybin mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness.

The Yippies, who were seen as an offshoot of the hippie movements parodying as a political party, came to national attention during their celebration of the 1968 spring equinox, when some 3,000 of them took over Grand Central Terminal in New York, resulting in 61 arrests. The Yippies, especially their leaders Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, became notorious for their theatrics, such as trying to levitate the Pentagon at the October 1967 war protest, and such slogans as "Rise up and abandon the creeping meatball!" Their stated intention to protest the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August, including nominating their own candidate, "Lyndon Pigasus Pig" (an actual pig), was also widely publicized in the media at this time.[63] In Cambridge, hippies congregated each Sunday for a large "be-in" at Cambridge Park with swarms of drummers and those beginning the Women's Movement. In the United States the hippie movement started to be seen as part of the "New Left" which was associated with anti-war college campus protest movements.[1]

### Students for a Democratic Society

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The organization that came to symbolize the New Left in the U.S. was the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). By 1962, the SDS had emerged as the most important of the new campus radical groups; soon it would be regarded as virtually synonymous with the "New Left".[64] In 1962, Tom Hayden wrote its founding document, the Port Huron Statement,[35] which issued a call for "participatory democracy" based on non-violent civil disobedience. This was the idea that individual citizens could help make "those social decisions determining the quality and direction" of their lives.[65] The SDS marshaled antiwar, pro-civil rights and free speech concerns on campuses, and brought together liberals and more revolutionary leftists.

A demonstrator offers a flower to military police at an anti-Vietnam War protest in Arlington, Virginia, 21 October 1967.

The SDS became the leading anti-war organization on college campuses during the Vietnam War. As the war escalated, SDS membership increased greatly, with more students willing to scrutinise the nation's political decisions in moral terms, and to protest the war with heightened militancy.[66] As opposition to the Vietnam War grew stronger, the SDS became a nationally prominent political organization. Ending the war was its overriding concern, overshadowing many of the original issues that inspired the formation of the SDS. By 1967, the Port Huron Statement was superseded by a new call for militant action,[67] which would inevitably lead to the destruction of the SDS.

In 1968 and 1969, as its radicalism reached a fever pitch, the SDS began to split under the strain of internal dissension and an increasing turn towards Maoism.[68] Along with adherents known as the New Communist Movement, some extremist illegal factions also emerged, such as the Weather Underground organization.

The SDS suffered the difficulty of wanting to change the world while "freeing life in the here and now". This caused confusion between short-term and long-term goals. The sudden growth due to the successful rallies against the Vietnam War meant there were more people wanting action to end the Vietnam War, whereas the original New Left had wanted to focus on critical reflection.[69] In the end, it was the anti-war sentiment that dominated the SDS.[70]

### The New Storefront Left

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Stung by the criticism that they were "high on analysis, low on action", and in "the year of the 'discovery of poverty'" (Michael Harrington's 1962 book The Other America[71] "was the rage"), the SDS launched the Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP).[72] Conceived by Tom Hayden as forestalling "white backlash", community-organizing initiatives would unite Black, Brown, and White workers around a common program for economic change. However, the ERAP leadership commitment was sustained barely two years. With no early indications in neighborhoods of an interracial movement that would "collectivize economic decision making and democratize and decentralize every economic, political, and social institution in America", many SDS organizers were induced by the escalating U.S. commitment in Vietnam to abandon their storefront offices, and heed the anti-war call to return to campus.[73]

In certain ERAP projects, such as JOIN ("Jobs or Income Now") in uptown Chicago, SDSers were replaced by white working-class activists (some bitterly conscious that their poor backgrounds had limited their acceptance within "the Movement"). In community unions such as "Rising Up Angry", "Young Patriots", and JOIN in Chicago; "White Lightening" in the Bronx; and the "4 October Organization" in Philadelphia, white radicals—acknowledging the debt they believed they owed to SNCC and the Black Panthers—continued to organize rent strikes, health and legal clinics, housing occupations, and street protests against police brutality.[74]

While city-hall and police harassment was a factor, internal tensions ensured that these radical community-organizing efforts did not long survive the '60s.[73] Kirkpatrick Sale recalls that the most dispiriting feature of the ERAP experience was that, however much they might talk at night about "transforming the system", "building alternative institutions", and "revolutionary potential", the organizers knew their credibility on the doorstep rested on an ability to secure concessions from, and thus to develop relations with, the local power structures. Far from erecting parallel structures, the ERAP projects were built "around all the shoddy instruments of the state". ERAP members were caught in "a politics of adjustment".[75]

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The European New Left appeared first in West Germany and West Berlin, which became a prototype for European student radicals.[76] West Berlin, an Allied-occupied island within socialist East Germany to which young men from both German states had moved to avoid conscription, in particular became a center of critical dissent from the rival social-democratic and communist party traditions. At the beginning of 1960, an early grouping was Subversive Action (Subversiven Aktion), conceived as the German branch of the Situationist International.[77] Associated with the charismatic East German emigre, and student of the Frankfurt School, Rudi Dutschke, it became a leading faction within the German Socialist Students' Union (Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund, SDS).[78]

Dutschke and his faction had an important ally in Michael Vester, SDS vice-president and international secretary. Vester, who had studied in the US in 1961–62, and worked extensively with the American SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), introduced the theories of the American New Left and supported the call for "direct action" and civil disobedience.[79] The theory as expounded by Dutschke in relation to protests against the Vietnam War, which soon dominated the agenda, was that "systematic, limited and controlled confrontations with the power structure" would "force the representative 'democracy' to show openly its class character, its authoritarianism, ... to expose itself as a 'dictatorship of force'". The awareness produced by such provocations would free people to rethink democratic theory and practice.[80][81] Dutschke was also influenced by Provo, a Dutch counterculture movement in the mid-1960s that focused on provoking violent responses from authorities using non-violent bait.

In France the Situationist International reached the apex of its creative output and influence in 1967 and 1968, with the former marking the publication of the two most significant texts of the situationist movement, The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord and The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem. The expressed writing and political theory of these texts, along with other situationist publications, proved greatly influential in shaping the ideas behind the May 1968 student and worker strikes and demonstrations in France; quotes, phrases, and slogans from situationist texts and publications were ubiquitous on posters and graffiti throughout France during the unrest.[82]

May 1968 slogan in Paris which reads: "It is forbidden to forbid!"

Another West Berlin manifestation of a new left was Kommune 1 or K1, the first politically motivated commune in Germany. It was created on 12 January 1967, in West Berlin and finally dissolved in November 1969. During its entire existence, Kommune 1 was infamous for its bizarre staged events that fluctuated between satire and provocation. These events served as inspiration for the "Sponti" movement and other leftist groups. In the late summer of 1968, the commune moved into a deserted factory on Stephanstraße in order to reorient. This second phase of Kommune 1 was characterized by sex, music, and drugs. All of a sudden, the commune was receiving visitors from all over the world, among them Jimi Hendrix, who turned up one morning in the bedroom of Kommune 1.[83]

The student activism of the New Left came to a head around the world in 1968. The May 1968 protests in France temporarily shut down the city of Paris, while the German student movement did the same in Bonn. Universities were simultaneously occupied in May in Paris, in the Columbia University protests of 1968, and in Japanese student strikes. Shortly thereafter, Swedish students occupied a building at Stockholm University. However, all of these protests were shut down by police authorities without achieving their goals, which caused the influence of the student movement to lapse in the 1970s.

## Global overview

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### Australia

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In Australia, the New Left was engaged in debates concerning the legitimacy of heterodox economics and political economy in tertiary education.[84] This culminated in the establishment of an independent department of political economy at the University of Sydney.[85][86]

### Brazil

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The Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores – PT) is considered the main organization to emerge from the New Left in Brazil. According to Manuel Larrabure, "rather than taking the path of the old Latin American left, in the form of the guerrilla movement, or the Stalinist party", PT decided to try something new, while being aided by CUT and other social movements. Its challenge was to "combine the institutions of liberal democracy with popular participation by communities and movements". However, PT has been criticized for its "strategic alliances" with the right wing after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil. The party has distanced itself from social movements and youth organizations and for many it seems the PT's model of a new left is reaching its limits.[87]

### China

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This paragraph is an excerpt from Chinese New Left.[edit]

The Chinese New Left is a term used in the People's Republic of China to describe a diverse range of left-wing political philosophies that emerged in the 1990s that are critical of the economic reforms instituted under Deng Xiaoping, which emphasized policies of market liberalization and privatization to promote economic growth and modernization.[88]

### Japan

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Gate of the Tokyo University of Education (present-day Tsukuba University) during the student strikes of 1968-69. The sign reads, "Indefinite Strike."

This paragraph is an excerpt from New Left in Japan.[edit]

The New Left (新左翼, shin-sayoku) in Japan refers to a diverse array of 1960s Japanese leftist movements that, like their counterparts in the Western New Left, adopted a more radical political stance compared to the established "Old Left," which in the case of Japan was emblematized by the Japanese Communist Party and Japan Socialist Party. After emerging in the lead-up to the 1960 Anpo protests against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, the movement grew and diversified before climaxing with the Zenkyōtō movement which barricaded dozens of Japanese universities in 1968–1969. Much like its counterparts in the West, in the 1970s, the Japanese New Left became known for violent internal splits and terrorism, which caused the movement's influence to wane.

### Latin America

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The New Left in Latin America can be loosely defined as the collection of political parties, radical grassroots social movements (such as indigenous movements, student movements, mobilizations of landless rural workers, afro-descendent organizations and feminist movements), guerilla organizations (such as the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions) and other organizations (such as trade unions, campesino leagues and human rights organizations) that constituted the left between 1959 (with the beginning of the Cuban Revolution) and 1990 (with the fall of the Berlin Wall).[89]

Influential Latin American thinkers such as Francisco de Oliveira argued that the United States used Latin American countries as "peripheral economies" at the expense of Latin American society and economic development, which many saw as an extension of neo-colonialism and neo-imperialism.[90]

The New Left in Latin America sought to go beyond existing Marxist–Leninist efforts at achieving economic equality and democracy to include social reform and address issues unique to Latin America such as racial and ethnic equality, indigenous rights, the rights of the environment, demands for radical democracy, international solidarity, anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism and other aims.[89]

## Organizations

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### France

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* Action Directe
* Camarades
* Situationist International
* Socialisme ou Barbarie

### Germany

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* Außerparlamentarische Opposition
* Red Army Faction
* Revolutionary Cells (German group)
* Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (from 1967)

### Italy

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* Autonomia Operaia
* Lotta Continua
* Potere Operaio
* Red Brigades

### Japan

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* East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front
* Japanese Red Army
* Red Army Faction
* United Red Army

### Soviet Union

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* Left School
* Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union
* Party of New Communists

### United Kingdom

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* Big Flame
* Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
* International Marxist Group
* New Left Review

### United States

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* American Indian Movement
* Antonio Maceo Brigade
* Black Panther Party
* Black Liberation Army
* Brown Berets
* Diggers
* New American Movement
* Rainbow Coalition
* Red Guard Party
* Students for a Democratic Society
* Revolutionary Youth Movement
* Venceremos Brigade
* Weather Underground
* Symbionese Liberation Army
* Up Against the Wall Motherfucker
* White Panther Party
* Young Lords
* Young Patriots Organization
* Patriot Party
* Youth International Party

## See also

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* American Left
* Anarcho-communism
* British Left
* Congress for Cultural Freedom
* Counterculture of the 1960s
* Drug policy reform
* Environmental movement
* Feminist movement
* Green left
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* Marxist cultural analysis
* Neoliberalism
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* Revisionism (Marxism)
* Shinjwapa
* Structural Marxism
* Third World socialism
* Timeline of history of environmentalism

## Explanatory notes

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1. ^ The K-Gruppen originally referred to the mainly Maoist-oriented small parties and other associations that had emerged in the 1960s with the disintegration of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) and the associated decline of the West German student movement. The term "K group" has been used primarily by competing left groups as well as in the media. It served as a collective name for the numerous, often violently divided groups and alluded to their common self-image as communist cadre organizations. The German term Kader denotes the civil servants or party functionaries in autocratic state systems, especially in socialist states (today, among others, the People's Republic of China and Cuba). In the Soviet sphere of influence, cadres were a group of people in the party and ideology sector with political and technical knowledge and skills ("party cadres", "leadership cadres", "leadership cadres", "junior cadres", "cadre policy", "cadre management"). In particular, they included the functionaries of the parties and mass organizations (executives), and university and technical college graduates (experts), but not normal working people. The personnel department of a company was called "Kaderabteilung" in the GDR; the head of this department was called "Kaderleiter".

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### Bibliography

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* Burner, David (1996). Making Peace with the 60s. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
* Hoch, Paul; Schoenbach, Vic (1969). L.S.E.: The Natives Are Restless: A Report on Student Power in Action. London: Sheed & Ward. ISBN 978-0722005965. A primary source.

## Further reading

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### Primary sources

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* Oglesby, Carl, ed. (1969). The New Left Reader. New York: Grove Press. ISBN 8345615368. LCCN 78084890. Influential collection of texts by Mills, Marcuse, Fanon, Cohn-Bendit, Castro, Hall, Althusser, Kolakowski, Malcolm X, Gorz & others.
* Teodori, Massimo, ed. (1969). The New Left: A Documentary History. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. LCCN 70081291.

### General

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* Detlev Albers u.a. (Hg.), Otto Bauer und der "dritte" Weg. Die Wiederentdeckung des Austromarxismus durch Linkssozialisten und Eurokommunisten, Frankfurt/M 1979
* Andrews, Geoff; Cockett, Richard; Hooper, Alan; Williams, Michael, New Left, New Right and Beyond. Taking the Sixties Seriously. Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. ISBN 978-0333741474
* Michael R. Krätke, Otto Bauer and the early "Third Way" to Socialism

### Australia

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* Armstrong, Mick, 1,2,3, What Are We Fighting For? The Australian Student Movement From Its Origins To The 1970s, Melbourne; Socialist Alternative, 2001. ISBN 0957952708
* Cahill, Rowan, Notes on the New Left in Australia, Sydney: Australian Marxist Research Foundation, 1969.
* Gordon, Richard (editor), The Australian New Left: Critical Essays and Strategy, Melbourne: Heinnemann Australia,1970. ISBN 0855610093
* Hyde, Michael (editor), It is Right to Rebel, Canberra: The Diplomat, 1972.
* Symons, Beverley and Rowan Cahill (editors), A Turbulent Decade: Social Protest Movements and the Labour Movement, 1965–1975, Newtown: Sydney ASSLH, 2005. ISBN 0909944091
* Williams-Brooks, Llewellyn, Radical Theories of Capitalism in Australia: Towards a Historiography of the Australian New Left, Honours Thesis, University of Sydney: Sydney, 2016, viewed 19 April 2017, hdl:2123/16655

### Canada

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* Anastakis, Dimitry, ed (2008). The sixties: Passion, politics, style (McGill Queens University Press).
* Cleveland, John. (2004) "New Left, not new liberal: 1960s movements in English Canada and Quebec", Canadian Journal of Sociology and Anthropology 41, no. 4: 67–84.
* Kostash, Myrna. (1980)  Long way from home: The story of the sixties generation in Canada. Toronto: Lorimer.
* Levitt, Cyril. (1984). Children of privilege: Student revolt in the sixties. University of Toronto Press.
* Sangster, Joan. "Radical Ruptures: Feminism, Labor, and the Left in the Long Sixties in Canada", American Review of Canadian Studies, Spring 2010, Vol. 40 Issue 1, pp. 1–21

### Germany

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* Brown, Timothy Scott (2013). West Germany and the Global Sixties: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962–1978. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107022553.

### Japan

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* Andrews, William Dissenting Japan: A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture, from 1945 to Fukushima.. London: Hurst, 2016. ISBN 978-1849045797. Includes summaries of the student movement and various New Left groups in postwar Japan.
* Miyazaki, Manabu (2005). Toppamono: Outlaw. Radical. Suspect. My Life in Japan's Underworld. Tōkyō: Kotan Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9701716-2-7. A primary source, includes an account of the author's days as a student activist and street fighter for the Japanese Communist Party, 1964–1969.

### United Kingdom

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* Ali, Tariq (1987). Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties. London: Collins. ISBN 000217779X. A primary source.
* Blackledge, Paul (12 October 2006). "The New Left's renewal of Marxism". International Socialism (112).

#### British New Left periodicals

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* "The New Reasoner". indexed articles online. 1957–1959. Retrieved 16 October 2006.
* "Marxism Today". indexed articles online. Communist Party of Great Britain and Marxism Today. 1980–1991. Retrieved 16 October 2006. (also 1998 special issue)
* "New Left Review". indexed articles online. 1960–2024. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
* "Socialist Register". indexed articles online. 1964–1999. Archived from the original on 18 July 2006. Retrieved 16 October 2006.
* "Universities & Left Review". indexed articles online. 1957–1959. Retrieved 16 October 2006.

#### British New Left articles

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* Mills, C. Wright (September–October 1960). "Letter to the New Left". New Left Review. I (5). New Left Review. Full text.
* "Placating Mr. Jenkins". Reading the Maps. 16 October 2006. Retrieved 16 October 2006.

### United States

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* Bahr, Ehrhard (2008). Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25795-5.
* Breines, Wini. Community Organization in the New Left, 1962–1968: The Great Refusal, reissue edition (Rutgers University Press, 1989). ISBN 0-8135-1403-7.
* Calvert, Greg; Neiman, Carol (1971). A Disrupted History: The New Left and the New Capitalism. Random House. ISBN 978-0394462677.
* Cohen, Mitchell, and Hale, Dennis, eds. The New Student Left (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966).
* Elbaum, Max. Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Che and Mao. (Verso, 2002).
* Evans, Sara. Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left (Vintage, 1980). ISBN 0-394-74228-1.
* Frost, Jennifer. "An Interracial Movement of the Poor": Community Organizing & the New Left in the 1960s (New York University Press, 2001). ISBN 0-8147-2697-6.
* Gosse, Van. The Movements of the New Left, 1950–1975: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004). ISBN 0-312-13397-9.
* Isserman, Maurice. If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left, reprint edition (University of Illinois Press, 1993). ISBN 0-252-06338-4.
* Klatch, Rebecca E. A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s. (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999). ISBN 0-520-21714-4.
* Long, Priscilla, ed. The New Left: A Collection of Essays (Boston: Porter Sargent, 1969).
* Mattson, Kevin, Intellectuals in Action: The Origins of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945–1970 (Penn State Press, 2002). ISBN 0-271-02206-X
* McMillian, John and Buhle, Paul (eds.). The New Left Revisited (Temple University Press, 2003). ISBN 1-56639-976-9.
* Novack, George; writing as "William F. Warde" (1961). "Who Will Change The World? The New left and the Views of C. Wright Mills". International Socialist Review. 22 (3). USFI: 67–79. Retrieved 16 October 2006.
* Oglesby, Carl (1969). "The Idea of the New Left". The New Left Reader. Grove Press. pp. 1–20\. ISBN 83-456-1536-8.
* Rand, Ayn. The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (New York: Penguin Books, 1993, 1975). ISBN 0-452-01125-6.
* Rossinow, Doug. The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America (Columbia University Press, 1998). ISBN 0-231-11057-X.
* Rubenstein, Richard E. Left Turn: Origins of the Next American Revolution (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973).
* Sale, Kirkpatrick. SDS: The Rise and Development of the Students for a Democratic Society. (Random House, 1973).
* Young, C. A. Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a US Third World Left (Duke University Press, 2006).

#### Primary sources: U.S.

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* Albert, Judith Clavir, and Stewart Edward Albert (1984). The Sixties Papers: Documents of a Rebellious Decade. New York: Praeger. ISBN 0-275-91781-9.
* Committee on Internal Security, Anatomy of a Revolutionary Movement, Students for a Democratic Society. Report by the committee on Internal Security. House of Representatives. Ninety-first Congress. Second Session. 6 October 1970. Washington: U.S. Government P.O.. 1970
* Jaffe, Harold, and John Tytell (eds.) (1970). The American Experience: A Radical Reader. New York: Harper & Row. xiii, 480 pp. OCLC 909407028.

#### Archives

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* New Left Movement: 1964–1973. Archive # 88-020. Title: New Left Movement fonds. 1964–1973. 51 cm of textual records. Trent University Archives. Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
* Russ Gilbert "New Left" Pamphlet Collection. An inventory of the collection at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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American New Left

Organizations and
movements|

| General|

* Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee
* Diggers
* Free Speech Movement
* George Jackson Brigade
* Maoist Internationalist Movement
* New Communist movement
* Peace and Freedom Party
* Progressive Labor Party
* Rainbow Coalition
* Red Guard Party
* SLATE
* Symbionese Liberation Army
* Up Against the Wall Motherfucker
* United Freedom Front
* Young Patriots Organization
* Youth International Party ("Yippies")

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Students for a Democratic Society|

* New American Movement
* Revolutionary Youth Movement
* Venceremos Brigade
* Weather Underground
* Worker Student Alliance

Ethnic movements|

* American Indian Movement
* Antonio Maceo Brigade
* Black Liberation Army
* Black Liberators
* Black Panther Party
* Brown Berets
* I Wor Kuen
* National Amerindianist American Redman's Party
* Revolutionary Action Movement
* Sojourner Truth Organization
* White Panther Party
* Young Lords

People|

| Influences|

* Theodor W. Adorno
* Murray Bookchin
* Noam Chomsky
* Erich Fromm
* Paul Goodman
* Che Guevara
* Herbert Marcuse
* C. Wright Mills
* Ho Chi Minh
* Raymond Williams
* Erik Olin Wright
* Malcolm X
* Mao Zedong

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Activists|

* Saul Alinsky
* Bob Avakian
* Bill Ayers
* Bernardine Dohrn
* David Gilbert
* Ted Gold
* Tom Hayden
* Abbie Hoffman
* John Jacobs
* Huey P. Newton
* Terry Robbins
* Jerry Rubin
* Bobby Seale

Publications|

* Berkeley Tribe
* Dissent
* Liberated Barracks
* National Guardian
* The Newsreel
* Radical America
* Ramparts
* Telos

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British New Left

General|

* Communist Party Historians Group (Communist Party of Great Britain)
* Hungarian Revolution of 1956
* Revisionism
* Marxist humanism
* Cultural studies
* Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
* Partisan Coffee House
* Socialist Society
* Socialist Movement

Figures|

* E. P. Thompson
* John Saville
* Stuart Hall
* Raymond Williams
* Richard Hoggart
* Perry Anderson
* Tom Nairn
* Peter Worsley
* Ralph Miliband
* Raphael Samuel
* Rodney Hilton
* Robin Blackburn
* Tariq Ali
* Catherine Hall
* Sheila Rowbotham
* Dick Hebdige
* Jeffrey Weeks

Organisations|

* The Angry Brigade
* Big Flame
* British Black Panthers
* Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
* Gay Left
* International Marxist Group
* International Socialists (UK)
* King Mob

Major influences|

* Antonio Gramsci
* Louis Althusser
* Frankfurt School
* Isaac Deutscher
* Harold Laski
* C. Wright Mills
* Talcott Parsons
* Iris Murdoch

Publications|

* New Reasoner
* Universities and Left Review
* New Left Review
* Socialist Register
* Radical Philosophy
* Soundings

Related articles|

* Far-left politics in the United Kingdom
* Anti-Stalinist left
* Eurocommunism
* UK underground
* Counterculture

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Hippies

History of the
hippie movement|

* Etymology
* Beat Generation/Beatniks
* Central Park be-ins
* Counterculture of the 1960s
* Red Dog Experience
* San Francisco sound
* Drop City
* Sunset Strip curfew riots
* Love Pageant Rally
* Haight-Ashbury
* Human Be-In
* Mantra-Rock Dance
* Summer of Love
* Fantasy Fair
* Monterey Pop Festival
* Newport Pop Festival
* Sky River Rock Festival
* People's Park
* Woodstock
* Glastonbury Festival
* The Farm
* Piedra Roja
* Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro
* Nambassa

People and groups|

* Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
* Acid Tests
* Furthur bus
* Electrohippies
* Diggers
* San Francisco Oracle
* Haight Ashbury Free Clinics
* Haight-Ashbury Switchboard
* Yippies
* Wavy Gravy
* Hog Farm
* The Brotherhood of Eternal Love
* Rainbow Family

Politics and ethics|

* Back-to-the-land movement
* Free love
* Anti-authoritarianism
* Simple living
* Environmentalism
* Pacifism
* Communalism
* Counterculture
* Bohemianism
* Make love, not war
* Turn on, tune in, drop out
* Vegetarianism
* Veganism

Culture and fashion|

* Psychedelia
* Flower power
* Hippie trail
* Hippie exploitation films
* Happening
* Peace symbols
* Bell-bottoms
* Love beads
* Long hair
* Tie-dye
* Intentional community
* communal living
* Free festival
* Music festival
* Flower child

Music|

* Folk music
* Folk rock
* Protest song
* Psychedelic music
* Psychedelic folk
* Psychedelic rock
* Psychedelic soul
* Psychedelic pop
* Psychedelic trance
* Acid rock
* Space rock
* Progressive rock
* Raga rock
* World music
* New-age music
* Jam bands
* List of jam band music festivals
* List of historic rock festivals

Psychedelics
and other drugs|

* Cannabis
* DMT
* LSD
* Psilocybin mushroom
* Mescaline
* Peyote

Hippie related
subcultures|

* Deadhead
* Feral
* Flower child
* Freak scene
* Housetrucker
* Jesus freak
* Jipitecas
* La Onda
* Lebensreform
* Mánička
* New Age
* New Age travellers
* Radical Faeries
* Rave
* UK underground
* Woodstock Nation
* Zippie

Related|

* List of films
* List of books and other publications
* Subculture
* Cannabis culture
* Cyberdelic
* Head shop
* Underground press
* press syndicate
* list
* Legend of the Rainbow Warriors
* Free Speech Movement
* Anti-war movement
* Civil rights movement
* Protests of 1968
* Chicago Seven
* New Left
* New social movements
* Postmaterialism
* Neotribalism
* Hungry generation
* Sexual revolution
* Second Summer of Love
* Neo-psychedelia
* Baby boomers

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Political spectrum

* Far-left
* Left
* Centre-left
* Centre
* Centre-right
* Right
* Far-right

Political positions

* Post-leftism
* Ultra-leftism
* Anti-Stalinist left
* New Left
* Centrist Marxism
* Third Way
* Radical centrism
* New Right

Political ideologies

* Anarchism
* Marxism
* Communism
* Socialism
* Social democracy
* Liberalism
* Christian democracy
* Conservatism
* Nationalism
* Fascism
* Nazism

Religious politics

* Buddhist socialism
* Christian left
* Jewish left
* Islamic socialism
* Christian right
* Hindutva
* Islamism
* Religious Zionism

Political pejoratives

* Baizuo
* Champagne socialist
* Hard left
* Liberal elite
* Limousine liberal
* Loony left
* Moonbat
* Red fascist
* Regressive left
* Social fascism
* Social imperialism
* Social justice warrior
* Soft left
* Wingnut

Models

* Horseshoe theory
* Left–right political spectrum
* Nolan Chart
* Overton window
* Open–closed political spectrum
* Pournelle chart
* Right-wing authoritarianism

See also

* Anti-authoritarianism
* Democratic transition
* Libertarianism
* Syndicalism
* Progressivism
* Green politics
* Identity politics
* Corporatism
* Authoritarianism
* Totalitarianism
* Revolutionary
* Reactionary
* Anti-establishment
* Collectivism
* Communitarianism
* The Establishment
* Individualism
* Hardline
* Populism
* Radical politics
* Triangulation

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Anarchist communism

Concepts|

* Anarchy
* Anti-authoritarianism
* Anti-capitalism
* Anti-statism
* Class consciousness
* Class struggle
* Classless society
* Common ownership
* Common resources
* Commons
* Commune
* Consensus decision-making
* Co-operative economics
* Egalitarian community
* Free association
* "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
* Give-away shop
* General strike
* Gift economy
* Market abolitionism
* Mutual aid
* Prefigurative politics
* Primitive communism
* Proletarian internationalism
* Stateless society
* Worker cooperative
* Workers' control
* Workers' council
* Wage slavery

People|

* Alexander Berkman
* Murray Bookchin
* Carlo Cafiero
* Emilio Covelli
* Joseph Déjacque
* Clarissa Dixon
* Buenaventura Durruti
* Sébastien Faure
* Iosif Bleikhman
* Luigi Galleani
* Emma Goldman
* Peter Kropotkin
* Ricardo Flores Magón
* Nestor Makhno
* Errico Malatesta
* Albert Meltzer
* Sergey Nechayev
* Volin

Organizational forms|

* Insurrectionary anarchism
* Platformism
* Synthesis federations

Theoretical works|

* Anarchism and Other Essays
* The Conquest of Bread
* Fields, Factories, and Workshops
* Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
* Now and After
* Post-Scarcity Anarchism
* Catechism of a Revolutionary

Related topics|

* Anarchism
* Autonomism
* Communization
* Council communism
* Left communism
* Libertarian socialism
* Social anarchism

* Anarchism
* Communism
* Socialism

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Libertarian socialism

Schools
of thought|

* Anarchism
* Collectivist anarchism
* Anarchist communism
* Anarcho-syndicalism
* Guild socialism
* Marxism
* Autonomism
* Chalieu–Montal Tendency
* Council communism
* Frankfurt School
* Freudo-Marxism
* Situationism
* Utopian socialism

Concepts

* Anti-authoritarianism
* Anti-capitalism
* Class conflict
* Common ownership
* Decentralization
* Economic democracy
* Egalitarian community
* Free association
* Mutual aid
* Worker cooperative
* Workers' control
* Workers' self-management

Models

* Communalism
* Decentralized planning
* Economic democracy
* Guild socialism
* Inclusive Democracy
* Market abolitionism
* Participatory economics
* Socialization

People

| 19th c.|

* Charles Fourier
* Stephen Pearl Andrews
* Mikhail Bakunin
* Joseph Déjacque
* Thomas Hodgskin
* Peter Kropotkin
* Gustav Landauer
* Herbert Marcuse
* William Morris
* Antonie Pannekoek
* Francesc Pi i Margall
* Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
* Wilhelm Reich
* Rudolf Rocker
* Otto Rühle

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20th c.|

* Michael Albert
* Murray Bookchin
* Cornelius Castoriadis
* Noam Chomsky
* G. D. H. Cole
* Takis Fotopoulos
* Paul Goodman
* Robin Hahnel
* Daniel Guérin
* Chris Pallis

Significant
events|

* International Workingmen's Association
* Revolutions of 1917–1923
* Spanish Revolution of 1936
* New Left
* New social movements

Related

* Communism
* Democratic socialism
* Left-libertarianism
* Libertarianism
* Socialism
* Syndicalism
* Critique of political economy

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Other|

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